Amy Beach

Amy said that she could see colors. To Amy G was red and A was green. Amy said her mother was a brilliant pianist. At sixteen, Amy debuted in Boston playing Moscheles Piano Concerto in G-minor with an orchestra. She also played Chopin’s F-minor Concerto with the Boston Symphony O

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Although her education was limited, she was permitted to be creative and develop as an artist. Many factors contributed to Beach’s success in a world hostile to female composers. Her mother moved in with her and her husband after Amy’s father died. Americas’s Musical Life: A History. When her husband died in 1910 and her mother a year later, Amy found a new independence and toured Europe until WWI. This seventy-five minute piece was warmly received because Phillip Hale, one of Boston’s most astute critics, commended her original ideas.

Her first big success in composition came when the Handel and Haydn Society premiered her Mass in E-flat, which was the first symphony by an American woman to be played anywhere. Her mother recognized her talent at a young age and cultivated it.

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